ade of tattered umbrellas.
Unfortunately the great scourge of the district round the shores of the
Lake is the sleeping sickness, which in the past few years has carried
off thousands of the natives, and has quite depopulated the islands,
which were once densely inhabited. The disease is communicated by the
bite of an infected fly, but happily this pest is only found in certain
well-defined regions, so that if the traveller avoids these he is quite
as safe, as regards sleeping sickness, as if he had remained in England.

On the return journey from Entebbe, Jinja, a port on the north side of
the Victoria Nyanza, is usually called at. This place is of great
interest, as it is here that the Lake narrows into a breadth of only a
few hundred yards, and, rushing over the Ripon Falls, forms the
long-sought-for source of the Nile. The magnificent view of the mighty
river stretching away to the north amid enchanting scenery is most
inspiring and one can well imagine how elated Speke must have felt when
after enduring countless hardships, he at last looked upon it and thus
solved one of the great problems the ancients.

II.

The following, is a literal translation of the Hindustani poem referred
to on p. 104:--

IN THE NAME OF ALLAH, THE MERCIFUL, THE COMPASSIONATE:

First must I speak to the praise and glory of God, who is infinite and
incomprehensible,

Who is without fault or error, who is the Life, though without body or
breath.

He has no relatives, nor father nor son, being himself incomparable and
passionless.

His is the knowledge of the known and of the unknown, and although
without a tongue, yet does he speak in mighty tones.

I, Roshan, came to this country of Africa, and did find it indeed a
strange land;

Many rocks, mountains, and dense forests abounding in lions and
leopards;

Also buffaloes, wolves, deer, rhinoceroses, elephants, camels, and all
enemies of man;

Gorillas, ferocious monkeys that attack men, black baboons of giant
size, spirits, and thousands of varieties of birds;

Wild horses, wild dogs, black snakes, and all animals that a hunter or
sportsman could desire.

The forests are so dark and dreadful that even the boldest warriors
shrink from their awful depths.

Now from the town of Mombasa, a railway line extends unto Uganda;

In the forests bordering on this line, there are found those lions
called "man-eaters," and moreover these forests are full of thorns and
prickly shrubs.